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Re: Final "make check" problems on alpha (2 UNRESOLVEDs).
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Rob Browning |
Subject: |
Re: Final "make check" problems on alpha (2 UNRESOLVEDs). |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:08:54 -0500 |
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Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:
> The tests above are unresolved, which means that they did not succeed, but
> the reason is not clear. In this special case, you are dealing with tests
> that depend on a well behaved garbage collection. Conservative marking,
> however, can make them fail. More generally, unresolved tests that deal
> with weak pointers, guardians, and gc in general, may fail with one
> version of guile and may succeed in a different run or after a
> recompilation with little changes. I have seen that case myself before.
>
> Summarized: Don't worry (at least don't worry more than you worry about
> guile's conservative marking).
OK. I also tried the test with Chris's patch to remove
mark_conservatively with, presuming I did what I think I did, no
difference...
So if this is the only thing that's failing, would we consider guile
to be working "well enough" on the alpha?
Thanks
--
Rob Browning
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